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Kendall Jones @beerblog.bsky.social · 1h

After nearly 30 years in Redmond, Mac & Jack's Brewing announces it is moving production to Bremerton where it will operate jointly with Silver City Brewery. This will upset a lot of people, but from a business perspective... heavy sigh. washingtonbeerblog.com/mac-jacks-br...

Mac & Jack's Brewing is Closing its Brewery in Redmond

Mac & Jack’s Brewing is moving its brewing production to Bremerton and will operate jointly with Silver City Brewery.

washingtonbeerblog.com

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 23m

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16m

Given the now fifth U.S. strike in the Caribbean, reposting my recent essay in @justsecurity.org.

There’s a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”

An absence of credible legal basis for the Caribbean strike suggests the Trump admin is asserting a prerogative to kill outside the law.

www.justsecurity.org

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11m

ok it's "with***" but my sentiment remains

the cover for REMAIN, a book by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shayamalan. But the way the text is set up it reads

"Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan Remain a Supernatural Love Story"

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1h

"Hendrix was a communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach until Thursday. He also said in the chat that, despite political differences, he’s drawn to Missouri’s Young Republican organization because “Missouri doesn’t like f--s.”"

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Katrina Lehto @lithera.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently, today is just going to be a day where I cry a lot.

In a stressful 15-inning game, Greta Niehaus found comfort with her dad

The daughter of late Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus began Friday's ALDS Game 5 in her seat at T-Mobile Park but finished it at the statue of her father.

www.seattletimes.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

White colonizers nearly killed all the buffalo to extinction, for pure bloodsport.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

If you hold any position of leadership in the republican party it's on you to affirmatively prove that your brain isn't oozing with nazi filth

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 1h

I live in Maine, and I haven't met Graham yet, but we share a number of folks in common. I hear he's really the real deal, and I agree with this assessment. Folks are truly pumped about him. No one I know is pumped about Janet. She has been an ok governor, but that's it.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing.

Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1h

Colin Kaepernick last played in an NFL game during the Obama administration.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 1h

Struzan’s work was the first art I saw as a kid that made me feel like I saw a magic trick. Like, I knew it wasn’t a photograph, but I just couldn’t work out exactly how it was a painting, either. A true instance of “how is this possible??”

Even after seeing footage of him working it’s still magic

Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 3h

We’ve lost Drew Struzan. A modern master, who by all accounts was a humble, sweet, loving, dedicated man. His work influenced culture itself, & we’ll be seeing that influence until the end of the modern world. What a legacy. What a body of work. May he rest well, & may his memory be a blessing.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1h

I love that markets are like "WOOOO RATE CUTSSS" as the head of the Fed is saying "The economy is flashing critical signs of distress"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 1h

Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · Mar 27

What a legend!

My favorite bit of trivia about the iconic Goonies poster is that he created 7 different versions that could be swapped in for the promotion of the film.

A series of illustrations made for promotion of Goonies, where the cast hangs from a cave stalactite and each other in a descending chain. There are 6 different versions on blank backgrounds that featured each cast member at the foremost position of the chain. Also included is the clean background, the final version used most often, and Drew's signature.

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 2h

I was friends with photographer Greg Heisler decades ago (I have an amazing signed Time cover proof of Ted Turner I helped him with), and he told me how he was briefly banned from the White House after a photo session for GHWB.

petapixel.com/2012/08/19/g...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Powell: "Both supply and demand in the labor market have come down so sharply so quickly. The fact that the unemployment rate has barely moved is kind of remarkable."

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3h

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the Group Stage

Screenshot from ESPN FC showing Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courteous attempting to catch a rat that ran across the pitch.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 2h

COVER REVEAL! World War Z meets The Dark Crystal. Coming in 2026. Art by @juliedillon.bsky.social. Layout by @toddkeisling.com. Written by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social.

Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2h

c.w. torture

Torture device manufacturers in the U.S. stay innovating.

ICE has chosen the "Wrap" a full-body restraint device, to use for removals of people to 3rd countries. (Not being taken to home countries, other countries.)

@apnews.com: one man says ICE kept him in the Wrap for 16 hours.

[So disturbing. I'll do my best to describe.]

Video still:

This appears to be a video created by the company to demonstate the product, not a real prisoner. The whole lower body of a man is placed in almost a blanket that is strapped around him. There are multiple straps the size of large seatbelts with big buckles. There are straps that go over his shoulders. He is also back-cuffed. This video is a still from the moment when a helmet the size of a motorcycle helmet is being placed on his head and strapped on under his chin. he is also wearing a pale blue lightweight surgical mask.

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1 of 5 | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations. That continued despite concerns about safety from a watchdog division of its parent agency, the US Dept. of Homeland Security. (AP Video/Allen G. Breed)

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2h

So I asked myself, "Why on earth would this be a thing I would want?"

I love storytelling, as an art form. I love games, TV, movies, books, plays. But I think something just clicked for me -

For some people, TV is just lights and sounds.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 3h

IMAGINE if Brits retiring to Spain or Thailand were told to take a language test.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 5h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 3h

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3h

A gorgeous fall day here in the burning hellscape of Portland.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4h

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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